John Denver
"Live at Red Rocks 1973"
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO
1973-08-XX

Lineage: SBD > TV Station Remaster > 1974 TV Show > VHS (x10?) > CD > Goldwave (Speed Correction, Studio Track Removal) > Trader's Little Helper > FLAC Level 8

Setlist:

01. The Music Is You
02. Starwood in Aspen
03. Rocky Mountain High
04. Follow Me > Leaving on a Jet Plane
05. Saturday Night in Toledo, Ohio (Randy Sparks)
06. Mother Nature's Son (Paul McCartney)
07. Today (Randy Sparks)
08. The Eagle and the Hawk
09. Rocky Mountain Suite
10. Poems, Prayers and Promises
11. Amsterdam (Jacques Brel; Mort Shuman)
12. Sunshine on My Shoulders
13. Take Me Home, Country Roads (Bill Danoff; Taffy Nivert)
xx. Annie's Song [1974 Studio Track from "Back Home Again" - Removed]
14. I Guess He'd Rather Be in Colorado (Bill Danoff)

Bonus Tracks:

Golders Green Hippodrome, London, England
1973-01-18

01. Catch Another Butterfly (Mike Williams)
02. Jimmy Newman (Tom Paxton)

Total Duration: 57 minutes and 30 seconds

Band:

John Denver - Acoustic Guitar, Lead Vocals
Paul Prestopino - Acoustic Guitar, Mandolin, Banjo
Steve Weisberg - Acoustic Guitar, Dobro, Pedal Steel Guitar
Dick Kniss - Double Bass
Herb Lovelle - Drums, Percussion
Mike Taylor - Acoustic Guitar on Bonus Tracks
Dick Kniss - Double Bass on Bonus Tracks

Notes:

This recording originally came to me as 14th August 1973, but it certainly isn't from the same concert as the 6 bonus tracks included in "An Evening With" reissue, which are from August 14th. However, the band arrangements are basically the same, so the two concerts are likely to be from the same era. John Denver certainly did more than one concert at Red Rocks that year.

The concert was broadcast on TV in 1974, so I'm almost certain that VHS is the original source. My guess is that the tape is at least 10th gen. So it's not a crisp clear recording, but not bad either. You can also find the video of a few songs on YouTube.

It's pretty obvious that the recording has gone through massive edits before being broadcast. It's certainly not the full concert, as they have to jam everything into an hour. You'll also notice a lot of very loud crowd noise between songs - I guess they put those noises into the recording on purpose. If the TV station hadn't done so much unnecessary "remaster", this might be a very good recording.

The original 14th track from this recording is "Annie's Song", but the song was written in 1974, so it can't be from the same concert as other songs. It seems quite logical that they would have wanted to include his latest big hit in the special which was broadcast only a few months after it was in the charts in 1974. According to my friend Michael, the song actually came from 1974 album "Back Home Again", so I removed it so as to get rid of official stuff.

The two bonus tracks are from a BBC broadcast concert called "Sight & Sounds". I don't know if 18th January 1973 is the concert date or broadcast date.

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